Yesterday, the LPI group headed on over to the pool, which is located in something called El Palacio de Los Deportes. We spent our time swimming and just laying around, since the water was absolutely freezing cold. We're working on a scavenger hunt during our stay here, and my group agreed that I would make matching friendship bracelets for everyone, so I worked on the bracelets (I finished the last one today, now the question is if I should make one for myself...). We missed all the global impact students as well as the two-weekers, but there was nothing to be done.
Later yesterday, I tested my luck with my phone. While I was at the beach this weekend, we at some point put our things too close to the water, and as the tide got higher, our stuff got washed up and soaked in seawater (which is most of the reason why everything was soaking wet after our trip, and the fact that it started pouring after our trip to the beach). My camera somehow made it through barely wet, without being in a ziplock bag or anything. My phone, however, was not so lucky. Drenched with sea water, after I disassembled the phone some and dried off the surface, the inside of the screen started to fog up with water vapor after I took a hair dryer to it at the hotel. I kept drying the phone until the screen stopped fogging up. However, I was still not convinced. I didn't want to try running a current through the phone while there was salt water hidden inside, so I left the phone without a battery until I got home. I asked my host father to let me borrow a few handfuls of rice, and he helped me bury my phone within the dry rice, so any remaining moisture would be absorbed. I left the phone like this for a couple days, as I worried about the salt water. It'd be one thing if it was freshwater that had flooded my phone, but the salt from the water had the potential to be much more harmful. Most people say if you go as far as to drench your phone in salt water, you should first wash it out with freshwater to remove all the salt. I was too nervous to do that though. When I got home that evening, however, I risked turning on my phone, and to my absolute delight, it worked. Whether or not the rice helped, or I got most of the moisture out myself is unknown, but regardless, I'm not complaining.
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